So is doing a raid more than once a week a waste of time?

I'm fairly new to the game. I've beaten the raid a few times with friends and can honestly say it's some of the most fun I've ever had gaming.

This week I basically ran 2 raids in a row thinking I'd grind some decent gear. But as each challenge went by the chests kept opening to contain nothing. Not even tokens. I had to leave after the 3rd challenge, so my question is if I had completed it and beaten callus, would I have got a 300 engram? Or would that chest have contained nothing to?

Once you’ve run the raid for that week that’s it, you don’t get more drops. To get more stuff you’d have to run it on your other characters (If you have any) or just wait for the weekly reset. At the very least, this is how it worked in D1.

You can run it once per character for loot + tokens and then again on prestige (per character) for more. I usually run my 3 regs the first day of reset then the rest throughout the week. Also don't forget the weekly challenge for an extra chest and underbelly keys. Don't spend all your tokens until you get up to 305 and Benedict is a confirmed 300 drop. The last chest after Callus is what gives you your Luminous engram for the weekly milestone.

This is why you level an alt that you can switch your guns over to or such and then do the raid a second time for better items. Obviously that doesn't help with your armour stuff but you get chances at exotic weapons + raid weapons too. So that double chance is pretty strong.

Depends on what you're shooting. IIRC, your damage stops going up when you either hit the light level of the enemy, or slightly after that. However, you still continue to get a slight amount of damage reduction from upping your power, no matter what. Not much, but enough so that a 305 can feel the difference on normal Callus compared to a 280.

Oh yeah, and pvp it effects absolutely nothing. Use whatever you want.

I believe so. Been a while since I played and I have the memory of a gold fish, so... don't take my word for it lol. And the damage thing was mainly so you can explore the EDZ with a level one and you won't be one-shotting things with a sidearm that take him 30 seconds to kill with power ammo.

Some seem to say that 305, the max light, gives the best return. Personally, I'm no less effective once I hit 280 over being 305. It really feels like a diminishing return deal.

Once you hit 280 you can start combining mods into purple mods which give a bit of boost to damage/defense stats which in turn raises your level. But you still die just as fast and take about the same amount of time to kill stuff. Plus 280 you can do all activities currently.

So in short just bare minimum go for 280. Once we raise in levels to 25, you will probably see a jump in gear to that will get you going quicker. But 280 is the current hump, and the current gate for all content unlocked.

shrugs We killed the boss just as fast with everyone around 280-290 as it takes now that we are all 305. Meaning about two rotations. So if there is a damage increase, it's not a meaningful one in my experience.

Too bad you couldn’t play destiny 1, you would know what raids really are, and why destiny 2 is turning into desert island. To answer your question, yes it is, but that’s just because this raid isn’t fun or a shooting activity. Back with the vault of glass going in the dark and killing 300 vex was fun and Sheppards were proud, who cared about the loot, we wouldn’t get any anyway!

Once you break certain plateaus you will start acquiring drops in that range, like when you hit 280, or 300 etc.

Your weekly milestones for "powerful gear" (Meaning at least one leviathan raid that week) tend to push you higher above your current bracket, usually meaning that it's a viable shot at increasing some power.

BUT you could beat your face against a wall in leviathan all week and potentially get higher drops as well, it will just take longer because you will acquire things at your current light level or maybe even lower....or maybe even higher!!

I'm honestly not sure why you got nothing in your chests though.. you should get tokens and have some gear. Maybe you ran into some bug?

Won't get any drops once you've done the room, and it's only one powerful gear from Calus per week per character. Same applies for keys as well, you'll only be able to get 3 per character. Doing rooms again will give you 500 glimmer and on the rare occasion 3 tokens (not 100% sure about the tokens however).